Welcome to fascism under the reign of Obama/Holder

quote:Breuer was pressed on why the US authorities had agreed to a deferred prosecution deal for the bank. He dismissed accusations that prosecutors had not been hard enough and said that the Justice Department had looked at the "collateral consequences" to prosecuting the HSBC or taking away its US banking licence. Such a move could have cost thousands of jobs, he said.

quote:Clearly, the government has bought into the notion that too big to fail is too big to jail. When prosecutors choose not to prosecute to the full extent of the law in a case as egregious as this, the law itself is diminished. The deterrence that comes from the threat of criminal prosecution is weakened, if not lost.

quote:There is no doubt that the wrongdoing at HSBC was serious and pervasive. Several foreign banks have been fined in recent years for flouting United States sanctions against transferring money through American subsidiaries on behalf of clients in countries like Iran, Sudan and Cuba. HSBC’s actions were even more egregious. According to several law enforcement officials with knowledge of the inquiry, prosecutors found that, for years, HSBC had also moved tainted money from Mexican drug cartels and Saudi banks with ties to terrorist groups.

re: Welcome to fascism under the reign of Obama/Holder(Posted by mograyback on 12/12/12 at 4:15 pm to SilverSpurs13)

quote:YEA! Under a LIBERAL president. Some things never change!

Yeah, like your partisan tunnel vision.

I'm glad this word 'fascism' is being slung around lately, I know this is an online board, but I think it represents what is going on in the real world. Hopefully people get educated on the topic of fascism and it brings down these partisan walls.

You can't call libs socialist, and blame them entirely for fascism. At some point you have to realize that your own kind is to blame too.

HempHead said WW1 is a good starting point, and he is right. That's a solid starting point. Do you all know what was created the year before WW1? The Federal Reserve. The elite money men of the world are behind our fascist roots, not simply libs or conservatives.

re: Welcome to fascism under the reign of Obama/Holder(Posted by mograyback on 12/12/12 at 4:19 pm to Radiojones)

quote:I don't think most people even know what fascism is.

You're absolutely correct.

Woody Guthrie used to have a sticker on his guitar "this machine kills fascist".. this word slowly faded and today it's a total unknown. It's no surprise that in this cable television era it's something you never hear about. It's just red vs blue, capitalism vs socialism, they socially engineered our society this way to hide the truth that we are and have long been a fascist nation. By straight definition, we are fascist.